"Before you taste anything, recite a blessing." ~Rabbi Akiva
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)
"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."~Jim Stovall~
"The province of knowledge is to speak; the privilege of wisdom is to listen." ~Anon
"Thousands kiss the books outside, who never look within." ~Anon

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Orpah's Daily Quote - Jennifer Aniston - health, happiness and success

January 25, 2010
“There's literally nothing more important to our health, happiness and success than what we put into our bodies and the energy, clarity and stamina that come as a result.” — Jennifer Aniston

Thought for Today - Caroline Myss - appreciate what you have

"If you don't appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself." — Caroline Myss, January 25, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, January 25, 2010.

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."— Ziggy

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, January 23, 2010.

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."— Denis Waitley

Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~Sir Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger." ~WinstonChurchill

"People occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." ~Sir WinstonChurchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." ~Sir Winston Churchill
“Success is moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~Winston Churchill

"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." ~Winston Churchill (1871-1947)

"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm." ~Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~Winston Churchill

~(British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965) ~




Friday, January 22, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, January 22, 2010.

"Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always."— Willa Cather

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Thought for Today — Oprah

"What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder."~January 20, 2010

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Margo Jefferson - Creativity

"Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent." — Margo Jefferson

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, January 17, 2010.

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."— Darwin P. Kingsley

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."— Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

DB - on Wisdom

"Wisdom is a personal thing, a thing to be achieved on one's own terms."~ DB, Vagabond Journeys

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Gerald Jampolsky - attitude

"The world does not have to change. The only thing that has to change is our attitude." ~Gerald Jampolsky

Friday, January 8, 2010

Quote-of-the- Day: Rush Limbaugh

Today is Jan 8, 2010.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Source: The World of Quotes

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, January 8, 2010.

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic."— Hazel Henderson

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Quote of the Day

Today is Jan 7, 2010.
Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.
~Ralph T. Flewelling~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, January 7, 2010.

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."— Charles Swindoll

Monday, January 4, 2010

Daily Inspirational Quote For Monday, January 4, 2010.

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won"t, you most assuredly won"t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.— Denis Waitley"

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Wayne Dyer Quotes

"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it." ~Wayne Dyer

"Be a Good Listener ... Its a Way of being Inspiring." ~Wayne Dyer

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed." ~Wayne Dyer


"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." ~Wayne Dyer

The music plays on


In the rhythm of Life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, But as long as there are friends to provide the melody, The music plays on.~Anonymous

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Beginning to an end

“…to make an end is to make a beginning.” — T.S. Eliot

Cheryl Richardson Quotes

"Let your attitude and your actions be the presence of light for someone in need this week." ~Cheryl Richardson

"Surrender your expectations. Instead of setting yourself up for disappointment, decide to do things differently this year. When you notice yourself projecting into the future, worrying about the past or listening to your negative internal chatter, use a simple statement like 'be here now' to remind you to return your thoughts to the most useful place of all—the present!" ~Cheryl Richardson, spiritual author

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Thomas J. Peters - Celebrate

“Celebrate what you want to see more of!.” ~Thomas J. Peters

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~R. W. Emerson

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson "We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

(American writer and scholar)

Quote of the Day

Today is Dec 30, 2009.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.~Alfred North Whitehead~

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Daily Inspirational Quote For Saturday, December 26, 2009.

"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."— Roy D. Chapin Jr.

Friday, December 25, 2009

What is Christmas?

“It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”— Agnes M. Pharo

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, December 25, 2009.

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!" — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, December 24, 2009.

"This was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever." — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Daily Inspirational Quote For Sunday, December 20, 2009.

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." — Chief Seattle

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Thomas Edison Quotes

"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around." ~Thomas Edison

“There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.” ~ Thomas Edison

Friday, December 18, 2009

Spanish Saying

“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” ~

Daily Inspirational Quote For Friday, December 18, 2009.

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." — Robert F. Kennedy

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Daily Quote

Today is Dec 16, 2009.
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).~I Ching (b.c.1150?)~

Seneca Quotes

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." ~Seneca

"Where fear is, happiness is not." ~Seneca

Monday, December 14, 2009

Silence

Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Mary Lou Randour - compassion

"The goal of compassion is not to care because someone is like us but to care because they are themselves." ~Mary Lou Randour

Born to love

“We are born to love.”— Helen Fisher

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Mary Kay - temporary setback

“One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.” ~Mary Kay

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Tyler Perry - Walk Forward

"When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward." ~Tyler Perry

Daily Qoute

Today is Dec 8, 2009.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.~Thomas Fuller~

Monday, December 7, 2009

Voltaire Quotes


"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills." ~Voltaire
“To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly” ~Voltaire

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Bob Proctor - life and death

“Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping to make it safely to death.” ~Bob Proctor

Sir James Dewar - parachutes

"Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open." ~Sir James Dewar

Mary Tyler Moore - Pain

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." ~Mary Tyler Moore

Thursday, December 3, 2009

...master-work of wisdom

“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”— Henri Amiel

Daily Inspirational Quote For Thursday, December 3, 2009.

"Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand." — Robert R. Brown

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Quote of the Day

Today is Dec 2, 2009.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.~Proverb, (Chinese)~

Element of Weather


"For how they (lighthouses) stand strong against the element of weather speak the strength of the designer's mind which comprise attitude and character.~lcd, 2 December 2009, comment to eileninmind's blog Traveling with Eilen.

Daily Inspirational Quote For Wednesday, December 2, 2009.

"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?" — Thomas á Kempis

German Proverb

“A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.”

Source: The Happy Guy